With these revised plans, Airtel is on a par with its biggest competitor Reliance Jio in the market. This comes after Jio recently increased the daily data limit to 1.5GB on some of its plans and also introduced a new Rs 149 recharge.

Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Airtel has announced longer validity for its two existing plans. Users also get unlimited voice calls and 1GB data per day.

Reliance Jio's Rs 448 plan now comes with a total of 126GB data, compared to 84GB previously. Now, the brand has extended the validity and it comes with a validity of 91 days.

Shortly after Idea and Airtel launched 10-day validity plans under ₹100, offering free calling and 1GB of data to match Jio's plans, the Mukesh Ambani-owned telco late last week unleashed another price disruption, giving 50% extra data or a discount of ₹50 to those who have subscribed to its plans that offered 1GB of data per day. Jio's "Happy New Year 2018" recharge tariff will be valid from January 9.

A company source claimed that "this is the first of many announcements to come" and that "2018 will bring unprecedented value to all Jio customers". Under the new plan, users will get up to 3.5GB 4G data per day. The new price if Rs 149. The validity of the pack remains the same, 28 days. Prepaid users must recharge with a minimum Jio Rs 399 plan to be eligible for this Surprise Cashback offer. The validity of this plan will be 70 days. It will now compete against Airtel's Rs 509 plan which also offers same amount of data. In comparison, Vodafone has a series of recharge offers for high data users, that start from Rs 458. Apart from this, users will get unlimited voice calls on local and STD networks. It was 28GB before.

On a recharge of Rs 448, the users will get 126 GB data for a validity of 84 days. It is now 105GB 4G data in total.

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The State of OR has had a lot of trouble recently with overproduction of cannabis leading to illegal exportation to other states. Kirsten Gillibrand, long a supporter of medical marijuana, called the Sessions memo "a direct attack on patients".

The Oakland Raiders officially announced the hiring of Jon Gruden as their next coach Saturday night, The East Bay Times reported. Del Rio was the Raiders' coach for three seasons, the longest tenure among the team's nine head coaches since Gruden's departure.

Numbers will be drawn Saturday night for the seventh-largest jackpot in US history - $570 million before taxes. Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets are displayed on January 3, 2018 in San Anselmo, California.

Jerry Van Dyke , the comedian and younger brother of Dick Van Dyke , has died at the age of 86, according to TMZ . She noted that a auto accident both were involved in two years ago provided deteriorated health in the aftermath.

The Iran situation "has the market a bit on edge", said John Kilduff, a partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York-based hedge fund. Oil traded above $61 a barrel as signs of slowing U.S. drilling added to optimism that the global crude surplus is abating.

President Donald Trump is cheering on demonstrators in Iran for standing up to their government over the hard economic times. President Donald Trump has repeatedly tweeted praise for the protesters, infuriating Iranian officials.

Precipitation will fall Sunday, starting as snow and then changing to freezing rain and rain as temperatures rise. Thursday will see a 40 percent chance of rain under mostly cloudy skies and a high near 45.

Buveneshwar Kumar starred for the Indians in the first innings, claiming impressive figures of 4/87 that had plenty of skill. Mohammed Shami and last man Jasprit Bumrah were undone in successive balls by typical Philander outswingers to seal victory.

This is the first major accident involving an Iranian oil tanker since worldwide sanctions were lifted in January 2016. Thirty-two people are missing after an Iranian oil tanker collided with a Chinese vessel off Shanghai late on Saturday.

Some claimed online that government employees had been instructed to take part, something Iranian media did not discuss. In anger, the protesters set fire to an overturned ambulance, shouting as the flames rose into the night sky.

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